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Publication Title: Gut content analysis of aquatic insects from wood substrates
Year: 1982 Status: Published Publication Type: Journal Article
H. J. Andrews Publication Number: 1949
Citation: Pereira, C. R. D.; Anderson, N. H.; Dudley, Tom. 1982. Gut content analysis of aquatic insects from wood substrates. Melanderia. 39: 23-33.
Online PDF: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/pubs/pdf/pub1949.pdf
Abstract: The contents of the guts from 108 taxa of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects collected on or within woody debris in streams wereexamined for the primary dietary components. Contents were iden-tified as fungi, diatoms, animal material, and detritus includingwood. Leaf materials and filamentous algae were noted. The resultswere used in part to indicate the types of utilization of the woodhabitat, and in particular to identify those taxa that may contributeby their feeding habits to particle-size reduction of wood. At least45 taxa of detritivores contained significant amounts of wood.Many of the surface associates were scrapers that fed on periphytonand aufwuchs.
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